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A bold move, which is not afraid of collectors, despite the fact that there are more than one unknown. Indeed, there is no official name behind the provenance of the works, but the names of the artists who will be auctioned are known: Alice Pasquini, Mauro Pallotta, Diamond, Solo, Jerico, Mirco Marcacci and Mauro Sgarbi. The negotiations with which Arcadia wants to become a pioneer in the urban art market have been conducted with the utmost confidentiality by choice of the owner himself, who wants very little to be known about himself. A sort of patron unaccustomed to the lights of the curatorial world, but one who has been able to bring some of the best-known young talents to the fore, even abroad.
A mister x patron who, following somewhat in the footsteps of Banksy, who is even more famous because he is anonymous, has granted the Arcadia Auction House part of his precious collection, with the intention of proposing all the facets of a heterogeneous art comprising thousands of codes. The Arcadia Auction House's intention is not so much to provoke, but to provide the collector with a key to interpreting a type of art that is so heterogeneous and complex that it is often difficult to fit into economic parameters.
There is frequent controversy as to why so-called 'graffiti artists' too easily go from giving away their works made on city walls, to then having them paid handsomely by gallery owners when made on other media. The idea that Arcadia wants to focus on on 20 June is that of the double code of urban art: an art that was born underground and is therefore on the one hand fast, athletic, bodily and caducous because it is exposed to the elements; but also an art that has evolved into various currents and styles, acquiring a qualitative exoskeleton that might be worth investing in as is done for the well-known names on the contemporary scene, who are and will always be just as present at auction.
Urban art undoubtedly remains a public eye, whether it is realised on city walls, on objects or on canvas. The Street Art section of Arcadia Auction No. 3 is therefore not a provocation. It is rather a test of that famous Van Gogh ear, metaphorically quoted by Basquiat himself.
But there will also be no lack of references to older currents of contemporary art. Such as the 150 lots including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and engravings by famous exponents of 20th century art. Starting with Italian masters such as Giorgio De Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Giorgio Morandi and Ottone Rosai, and ending in the 1990s. We move from the formalism of Piero Dorazio, Giulio Turcato and Antonio Sanfilippo, to the Roman Pop Art of Tano Festa and Mario Schifano, and on to the heterogeneous Milanese area trends of Enrico Baj and Roberto Crippa; There will also be important names in Arte Povera and Conceptual Art such as Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gino De Dominicis, as well as Vasarely's Optical Art; also of note is a hyper-contemporary section with a curatorial slant, with artists from the 1980s and 1990s such as Levini, Rainaldi and Pintaldi. There are also five historical shots by Claudio Abate, the acclaimed photographer of the Roman avant-garde, famous since the 1960s for his marked perception of space and his recurring choice of frontal viewpoint.
Not least of these are the works of Salvatore Emblema, Omar Galliani and Andrè Masson, collected from a famous Roman collection acquired between the 1980s and 1990s by the historic gallery owner Cleto Polcina. Among the names of contemporary art also up for auction are Arman, Herman Nitsch, H.H Lim, Andy Warhol, Aligi Sassu and Arnaldo Pomodoro.
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Street art fever, now also the auction, organised by Arcadia. The most famous writers up for auction
It did not take Arcadia Auction House long to realise the opportunity of organising a major auction dedicated to street art, right in conjunction with the Banksy exhibition at Palazzo Cipolla, a historic event in the Italian and European contemporary scene. For this reason, on Monday 20 June, the young Auction House will offer an evening auction of paintings and objects created by some of the most famous Italian street artists of the moment at the Palazzo Celsi.A bold move, which is not afraid of collectors, despite the fact that there are more than one unknown. Indeed, there is no official name behind the provenance of the works, but the names of the artists who will be auctioned are known: Alice Pasquini, Mauro Pallotta, Diamond, Solo, Jerico, Mirco Marcacci and Mauro Sgarbi. The negotiations with which Arcadia wants to become a pioneer in the urban art market have been conducted with the utmost confidentiality by choice of the owner himself, who wants very little to be known about himself. A sort of patron unaccustomed to the lights of the curatorial world, but one who has been able to bring some of the best-known young talents to the fore, even abroad.
A mister x patron who, following somewhat in the footsteps of Banksy, who is even more famous because he is anonymous, has granted the Arcadia Auction House part of his precious collection, with the intention of proposing all the facets of a heterogeneous art comprising thousands of codes. The Arcadia Auction House's intention is not so much to provoke, but to provide the collector with a key to interpreting a type of art that is so heterogeneous and complex that it is often difficult to fit into economic parameters.
There is frequent controversy as to why so-called 'graffiti artists' too easily go from giving away their works made on city walls, to then having them paid handsomely by gallery owners when made on other media. The idea that Arcadia wants to focus on on 20 June is that of the double code of urban art: an art that was born underground and is therefore on the one hand fast, athletic, bodily and caducous because it is exposed to the elements; but also an art that has evolved into various currents and styles, acquiring a qualitative exoskeleton that might be worth investing in as is done for the well-known names on the contemporary scene, who are and will always be just as present at auction.
Urban art undoubtedly remains a public eye, whether it is realised on city walls, on objects or on canvas. The Street Art section of Arcadia Auction No. 3 is therefore not a provocation. It is rather a test of that famous Van Gogh ear, metaphorically quoted by Basquiat himself.
But there will also be no lack of references to older currents of contemporary art. Such as the 150 lots including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and engravings by famous exponents of 20th century art. Starting with Italian masters such as Giorgio De Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Giorgio Morandi and Ottone Rosai, and ending in the 1990s. We move from the formalism of Piero Dorazio, Giulio Turcato and Antonio Sanfilippo, to the Roman Pop Art of Tano Festa and Mario Schifano, and on to the heterogeneous Milanese area trends of Enrico Baj and Roberto Crippa; There will also be important names in Arte Povera and Conceptual Art such as Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gino De Dominicis, as well as Vasarely's Optical Art; also of note is a hyper-contemporary section with a curatorial slant, with artists from the 1980s and 1990s such as Levini, Rainaldi and Pintaldi. There are also five historical shots by Claudio Abate, the acclaimed photographer of the Roman avant-garde, famous since the 1960s for his marked perception of space and his recurring choice of frontal viewpoint.
Not least of these are the works of Salvatore Emblema, Omar Galliani and Andrè Masson, collected from a famous Roman collection acquired between the 1980s and 1990s by the historic gallery owner Cleto Polcina. Among the names of contemporary art also up for auction are Arman, Herman Nitsch, H.H Lim, Andy Warhol, Aligi Sassu and Arnaldo Pomodoro.
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